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A pianist of real character and refinement – plus a huge career in Europe – Lucas Debargue was on hand to lend his musicianship to a relatively rare outing of Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto no. 2.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Pauline Kael capitalized on counterculture snobbery, the pecking order of the oh-so enlightened.
As my second wave feminist companion said as we left the theater, “That was hilarious. And I am SO ANGRY.”
From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.
Storytelling is big business in concert halls these days, and as a yarn spinner Sarah Walker is in a class her own.
The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?
There’s a funny, parabolic quality to the emotional weather in Weather — amidst all the unsettling harbingers, the sensation of being in end times, there is still love.
Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
Arts Commentary: Politics IS Performance — A Director Evaluates the Candidates
Politicians are forced to perform on a massive stage and under the fierce gaze of a thousand lenses, yet few have real skills in that arena.
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